Sunday, August 2, 2015
Andrew's First Day of Work
Andrew's first day of work was May 18th. It was weird sending him off to work for the day and not school. He was really excited to just get going and start applying all that he had learned in school. He got to do some fun training called Traditions. They teach you all about how Disney started and what a great "tradition" it is to be apart of. They then finish the day off with a behind the scenes tour of Magic Kingdom. Let's just say Andrew saw Peter Pan warming up for the day and Cinderella get in the elevator going up to her castle. Also, that day Mickey Mouse delivered his name tag to him. It is very surreal to be working for Disney. They are such a great company to work for and Andrew feels very grateful to be given this opportunity. He now has about 3 months under his belt and he has been BUSY! I like to brag about him because he is KILLING it. He literally has people fighting over him at work. His boss even told him he is excited to get him back on his team and not have to loan him out to other teams/projects. He is currently working on three HUGE different projects. He comes home and tells me what he is doing and I have no idea so I just say he is doing stuff for ESPN, Disney Channel, and ABC. All I know is that he has played a huge part in starting and implementing some new ideas in each project. I have to say that the best part of Andrew working and not being in school is that he comes home and has nothing to do but be with Ellie and me. It is the BEST!
Hello Sunny Florida!!
Since Disney was moving us they gave us allotted points to put towards different things to help us move. We decided to use our points on other things rather than a flight to Orlando. Luckily, Raleigh to Orlando is only a 9 hour drive. We decided to break it up and drive 6 hours to Jacksonville then just over two hours the next day to Orlando. Ellie was a champ and did amazing until we were about ten minutes away from our destinations and then she would have a full blown melt down. Before we made it to Jacksonville we stopped in Savannah Georgia to explore. We only walked into one museum and then decided we were on a roll and might as well keep driving. We'll have to go back and explore some more one day.
When we finally made it to Orlando we were armed and ready to try and find a place to live. I told Andrew I was done living in an apartment and would love to live in a townhome or an actual house. We had looked at a ton of listings and were ready to make phone calls. As we started making phone calls the response was either the place was already rented or the people had no idea what we were talking about. We were shocked to learn that people would even rent places sight unseen. So we would see something listed for maybe only an hour and the realtor would say someone already is renting it. They wouldn't even go look at it. I told Andrew we were not doing that because we didn't want to have a repeat of what happened to us in North Carolina with our first apartment. Also, one realtor told us we were competing with about 6 other people who were all looking for the same type of place, in the same budget, and in the same small area as us. Luckily, we got a hold of one realtor who knew of a place that hadn't been listed yet. She told the owners that we were very interested but we would not be able to see it for at least a week. We kept driving by the house all week and really wanted to move in there. Luckily,the owners liked us and let us move in that weekend. This place was an answer to our many prayers that we had said for the few months before we moved. We just wanted a place to be comfortable, in a ward that needed us, and where we could make some great friends. Heavenly Father listened to our prayers and blessed us with this wonderful home and community to live in. Andrew's commute to work is between 20-25 minutes depending on traffic. We live about 13 minutes from Disney World and 10 minutes to all the shopping you could ever need. We have loved it and we love to have visitors.
When we finally made it to Orlando we were armed and ready to try and find a place to live. I told Andrew I was done living in an apartment and would love to live in a townhome or an actual house. We had looked at a ton of listings and were ready to make phone calls. As we started making phone calls the response was either the place was already rented or the people had no idea what we were talking about. We were shocked to learn that people would even rent places sight unseen. So we would see something listed for maybe only an hour and the realtor would say someone already is renting it. They wouldn't even go look at it. I told Andrew we were not doing that because we didn't want to have a repeat of what happened to us in North Carolina with our first apartment. Also, one realtor told us we were competing with about 6 other people who were all looking for the same type of place, in the same budget, and in the same small area as us. Luckily, we got a hold of one realtor who knew of a place that hadn't been listed yet. She told the owners that we were very interested but we would not be able to see it for at least a week. We kept driving by the house all week and really wanted to move in there. Luckily,the owners liked us and let us move in that weekend. This place was an answer to our many prayers that we had said for the few months before we moved. We just wanted a place to be comfortable, in a ward that needed us, and where we could make some great friends. Heavenly Father listened to our prayers and blessed us with this wonderful home and community to live in. Andrew's commute to work is between 20-25 minutes depending on traffic. We live about 13 minutes from Disney World and 10 minutes to all the shopping you could ever need. We have loved it and we love to have visitors.
Goodbye North Carolina.....
Leaving North Carolina was one of the hardest things we have ever had to do. We loved living in Raleigh and all that it taught us. Being the first place we have lived away from family it helped us grow together as a couple and become our own family unit. We had a great ward and found some lifelong friends. We had our first child there and paid a lot of tuition to the school of hard knocks as Andrew likes to say. It seriously was the fastest year of our lives but filled with SOO much. Thank you to 5400 Summerford Drive #6101 for being such a wonderful home. And a big shout out to Darius Rucker for his song Wagon Wheel. It will always been in our top five favorite songs! Raleigh you will always have a very special place in our hearts.
Andrew's Graduation
Andrew's graduation day was perfect! It was a wonderful day just celebrating him and all of his hard work over the past year. We were so happy Andrew's parents flew in to celebrate with us.
His graduation was short and to the point...just like his program. It lasted a total of 45 minutes. It was nice to just have the Director, Dr. Rappa, make some comments then they passed out the certificates and we were done. Luckily they had a meet and greet before and after the graduation. It was fun meeting all of Andrew's professors and classmates that I had heard all about over the past year. To top it off we went to Burgerfi, one of our favorite places to eat in Raleigh.
Andrew was such a trooper over the last year. He worked hard every day and made it a goal to not do anything school related on Sunday and I know he was blessed for that. He was always so good to put me first over any school work. I seriously forgot a lot of the time that he was even in school. A perfect example of this was during his last month I asked him one night what he was working on. Turns out he was working on this 20 page group paper and1 hour presentation that I had no idea he even had to do.
We're so proud of you Andrew! (I'll add more pictures later...we took them on our real camera which I always forget to upload) Here is a link his school posted on their website.We're kind of famous. http://analytics.ncsu.edu/?p=9046
His graduation was short and to the point...just like his program. It lasted a total of 45 minutes. It was nice to just have the Director, Dr. Rappa, make some comments then they passed out the certificates and we were done. Luckily they had a meet and greet before and after the graduation. It was fun meeting all of Andrew's professors and classmates that I had heard all about over the past year. To top it off we went to Burgerfi, one of our favorite places to eat in Raleigh.
Andrew was such a trooper over the last year. He worked hard every day and made it a goal to not do anything school related on Sunday and I know he was blessed for that. He was always so good to put me first over any school work. I seriously forgot a lot of the time that he was even in school. A perfect example of this was during his last month I asked him one night what he was working on. Turns out he was working on this 20 page group paper and1 hour presentation that I had no idea he even had to do.
We're so proud of you Andrew! (I'll add more pictures later...we took them on our real camera which I always forget to upload) Here is a link his school posted on their website.We're kind of famous. http://analytics.ncsu.edu/?p=9046
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